Please share some nutritious vegan breakfast ideas

[ilovemygirl]

I really need to fix up my diet. I'm a little ashamed to admit that I usually just have a huge cup of coffee and a piece of toast with some earth balance spread on it for breakfast pretty much every day. Once in a while if I'm extra hungry I'll have a banana.
My blender sucks for making smoothies. I've been coveting a vitamix forever but I just can't afford one. We eat tofu for dinner a lot so I don't want to overdo the soy.
Any ideas?

TIA

[somegirl99]

Originally Posted by ilovemygirl

I really need to fix up my diet. I'm a little ashamed to admit that I usually just have a huge cup of coffee and a piece of toast with some earth balance spread on it for breakfast pretty much every day. Once in a while if I'm extra hungry I'll have a banana.
My blender sucks for making smoothies. I've been coveting a vitamix forever but I just can't afford one. We eat tofu for dinner a lot so I don't want to overdo the soy.
Any ideas?

TIA

Oatmeal is my breakfast of choice, there's a recent thread about oatmeal toppings.

[trilliumwolf]

vegan food

Hmmm..oatmeal, whole-grain hot cereals, nutbutters on veggies, soy yogurts...I know they aren't cheap, but it's worth having a good smoothie blender. Try soy yogurt mixed with a banana, strawberries, and wheatgerm. Lentils and beans are a great filler, and highly nutritious to boot! Brown or wild rice, mushrooms, bulgar wheat, blackbeans...all good choices. Try eating more for breakfast, less for dinner.

[ShadowMoon]

Oatmeal with fruit or anything else you want to mix in

Whole grain waffles or pancakes

Scrambled tofu with greens, peppers, onions, beans, etc, etc, etc

Toast with Earth Balance, or mashed avocado, or Earth Balance & PB, or baked beans.

Re-heated pizza

[Aubergine68]

Today, we had a spread made from almond butter and apple butter mixed together on organic sprouted grain toast. I have also spread dessert tofu on toast with nut butter or fruit spread instead of cream cheese.

For tomorrow, I'm making haroset -- equal parts finely chopped peeled apple, toasted crushed walnuts, a drizzle of maple syrup, a few tsp grape juice (in lieu of wine), and cinnamon mixed together. It is a traditional
Passover food which I discovered a few years ago -- I'm not Jewish. It tastes like a raw apple crisp.

Doesn't keep for more than a few days in the fridge, but one can freeze it in small portions.

You can google a zillion different recipes and make a lot of variations using just about any kind of nut and any dried or fresh fruit. I eat it with a spoon, nice as a topping on cereal or oatmeal, nice in a wrap.

I also love pancakes made with about 1/3 cup almond flour subbed for regular flour I make pancake batter the night before and let it sit in the fridge overnight, sort of soaking the grains TF style.

Another favorite is oatmeal with banana and peaches or peach butter and almond butter cooked in. Mmmmm.

[mumkimum]

Fruit tabouleh is great - soak bulgur wheat in an equal amount of juice overnight, in the am cut up fruits, add lemon juice, maybe dried fruit (golden raisins are awesome), mint if you have any and mix it all together.

Switching to nut butter on toast might be an easy change that'd add a bit more nutrition.

Quick sauteed mushrooms with olive oil, salt and pepper, pinch of thyme with toast or some kind of bread is a tasty breakfast. I also like leftover basmati rice with some kind of indian-style veg for breakfast too.

[Baby_Cakes]

Another fan of steel cut oats w/bananas and agave nectar here. DD (16 mo) enjoys it as well. On other days, admittedly, we do bagels w/earth balance, rye toast, or sometimes just an apple or an orange. Oh -- and cereal. Annie's Bunny Love cereal is tasty.

[wytchywoman]

Breakfast couscous is yummy. Just boil the couscous, add whatever dried fruits and sweetener you want and top it off with some milk alternative.

[notjustmamie]

Granola with dried fruits and nuts. Eat it plain or with your favorite milk substitute.

[425lisamarie]

quinoa fixed like oatmeal is yummy and high in protein. Add some crispy nuts, coconut oil and cinnamon

[elizawill]

i've been enjoying this website for recipes: http://vegweb.com/index.php?PHPSESSI...cipecategories

just click on breakfast foods. hth.

[catnip]

I usually eat egg-fried tofu, (tofu, little bit of oil, salt, pepper, nutritional yeast) and sauteed greens on toast for breakfast. Oatmeal, cold or hot quinoa, and PBJ on toast are other frequent picks.

[Jadzia]

I often do a bagel (cinnamon-raisin) topped with peanut butter and jelly. I buy really good, cheap bagels at Costco and freeze them.

Otherwise I just do cereal w/soy milk or instant oatmeal.

I was thinking of buying that new So Delicious milk made from coconut milk for my cereal.

[nicolelynn]

I like:
1. Teff hot cereal with coconut butter, dates, chopped almonds and ground cloves
2. Millett hot cereal/grits with chopped dried apricots (add while cooking so they plump up and sweeten the cereal) and chopped walnuts
3. Amaranth hot cereal with raisins, cashew butter and vanilla
4. Oatmeal with peanut butter and raisins or with blueberries, almonds and cinnamon
5. Quinoa flakes hot cereal with cooked apples, cinnamon and hemp seed
6. Carrot-raisin Manna bread with almond butter or Ezekiel english muffins with almond butter, applesauce and cinnamon
7. Tofu scramble burrito in Ezekiel tortillas with salsa
8. Various pancake recipes with fruit toppings, occasionally maple syrup
9. Occasionally if I'm in a hurry: cereal w/ a non-dairy milk
10. I kicked my coffee addiction over a year ago. Sometimes I have a green
drink like Vitamineral green or Perfect Food with breakfast, or tea

Then for a mid-morning snack I have a yummy green smoothie

[tanyalynn]

One thing that's gotten us out of our breakfast rut, in general, is for me to deliberately make a large batch of a traditional dinner food and then eat leftovers several mornings for breakfast. When we're crunched for time, warming something up is the easiest way to a hot breakfast, and the flavors were more interesting than the stuff I tended to make.

[jabeen]

This morning I had oat bran toast with mashed avocado, a little salt, and lots of nutritional yeast...mmmm!

[fresh_veggie]

In alicia silverstones new book the kind life, she swears by eating miso soup for breakfast - the kind ade with unpasteurized miso aged 2 years or whatever. sounds good right now since i'm on an asian food kick...

quinoa fixed like oatmeal is really really tasty!

[Tuesday]

Originally Posted by fresh_veggie

In alicia silverstones new book the kind life, she swears by eating miso soup for breakfast - the kind ade with unpasteurized miso aged 2 years or whatever. sounds good right now since i'm on an asian food kick...

quinoa fixed like oatmeal is really really tasty!

I think the Miso soup breakfast is a great idea!

Oatmeal or Quinoa are huge in our household.

If I'm in a rush - I just eat some fruit and a small number of almonds or walnuts.

[MountainMamaGC]

Muffins. Bake a bunch and freeze them.

[DevaMajka]

I just had quinoa porridge for the first time today- very yummy!!
It's quinoa flakes, and I added a tbsp of coconut milk and some brown sugar and ground flax.